The Introduction
There are many websites talking about printmaking from its basics to the very advanced techniques, many tutorials, videos and so on, this is true. What am I doing with this (new iteration) of these pages and why pages and not a blog?
I want to do it a little bit differently. No “too clever” and overly long descriptions, no “to do this all you need is a 500$ worth of tools”. A little bit of theatrics, maybe some fun (hopefully anyway) and a practical explanation of what works and what doesn’t.
That said, lets go onto the main course:
The Basics
Assuming you have an image source in a form of a sketch (if you don’t – please obtain one, ideally by drawing it yourself and come back later. Joking, sort of, but really, get a sketch of an idea at least. Saves you time and money). Ideally, the sketch is in 1:1 scale to your print, but sometimes what I do it make smalelr version and then enlarge it as necessary. Some works were transferred by measuring planend shapes and going “alright… so the scale is roughly 1:5 so this will be here, this here and that over there. Sort…